Poor Kevin McCarthy

I may be the only one, but I have some hope for the new speaker candidate. He may not be a legislative eagle, but he seems to be really good at forming a personal rapport with people. And he recruited a lot of the Freedom Caucus tea party folks. Such ego-stroking may be just what the Freedom Caucus needs to be a bit flexible. Of course, one the other side, it looks like the Freedom Caucus folks are going to refuse to give him the 218 he needs to become speaker.

So I think his odds are higher than anyone else in the house, but I think he's still screwed. Especially given how he accidentally noted that the Benghazi Committee's main accomplishment to date has been throwing a bunch of unsubstantiated mud at Hillary.

Freepers eagerly condemn the new heretic.

oldbrowser explains that the real purpose of the Benghazi committee is to show the truth about that evil, evil Hillary:

“The core Republican goal in establishing the Benghazi committee was always to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and never to conduct an evenhanded search for the facts.”

That and the idle curiosity about how and why four Americans including an ambassador were slaughtered like animals while our government watched.

Chgogal wishes McCarthy would have completely thrown any patina of objectivity aside and begun a frothing rage against Hillary. That woulda worked!

If I was McCarthy I would have double down.

“Damn right this is political. This is DC. Hillary got the Ambassador, a State Department staffer and two Navy SEALs killed. She lied about a video starting the terrorist attack, she and Obama arrested and jailed the video maker, she used an unsecured server, she emailed classified material over the unsecured server and she illegally deleted emails instead of turning the emails over to the State Department. Now this incompetent woman wants to be POTUS. Are you kidding me? The Republican Party is trying to save this country from the most inept, incompetent former Secretary of State to ever soil the threshold of the Department of State. And you can quote me on this.”

Now Hillary, Obama, Pelosi and Ried may not like the truth, but dammit, the families of the slain deserve to know the truth. The families deserve to know where Hillary and Obama were the night of 9/11/12. The families deserve to know why Obama did not lift a finger to rescue them or even attempt to rescue them. The American people deserve to know how truly inept and incompetent Hillary and Obama are. They deserve the truth. The Benghazi Select Committee is getting to the bottom of this tragic 9/11 event. If Truth is Political than so be it.”

Unfortunately, the weenie did not double down,

DannyTN wonders if McCarthy is actually working for Hillary:

Did McCarthy tell the truth? Or is he trying to help Hillary since it is clear none of the GOPe candidates will win?

John 3_19-21 is sure the Benghazi truth is gonna come out real soon...

My gut tells me Gowdy is getting to close to the truth. This smells of a kill the committee action to me.

First; rumours of Gowdy retiring next year, then McCarthy "fumbles" the ball on the one yard line.

Me thinks Gowdy is being warned to STFU.

newfreep weakly attacks the article's author:

EJD is THE MOST insanely stupid journolista...and that’s saying something.

huldah1776 just piles up the conspiracy theories:

Well, then bring down the White Hut by finding out about what really happened with Extortion 17. Did Hillary’s e-mails and server give their mission away?

Rome2000 takes issue with McCarthy's often...offbeat vocabulary:

untrustable?

Does not compute.

Eff you McCarthy, YOU SLIMY DOUCHEBAG

WASHINGTONIANS RAUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rome2000 again, because no one captures Freepers' rage like he can:

Hey SEAN HANNITY.

You are AFRAID to fight the RNC and declare that DOUCHEBAG MCCARTHY UNFIT TO BE SPEAKER.

Don’t you have enough cash?

Stop being a pussy.